By HEATHER TURK Front Row Features Film Critic When Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” premiered in 2003, the first-time feature film director, writer, actor and producer was hopeful that he had an Academy Award-winning film on his hands. He believed in his movie so much, which followed a love triangle of [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Anyone can make a bad movie, but it takes a special kind of filmmaker to cook up a memorable turkey. Hollywood is known to celebrate such dreamers. Tim Burton, for example, paid tribute to horrormeister Ed Wood, with a 1994 dramedy starring Johnny Dep [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Dave Franco and Aubrey Plaza are two of Hollywood’s most notorious scene-stealers, and they just happen to co-star in the irreverent comedy “The Little Hours.” Loosely based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s “The Decameron,” “The Little Hours” centers on three [...]
By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Aussie actress Rose Byrne began her career 20 years ago in her native land in the romantic comedy “Dallas Doll,” playing a UFO-obsessed teenager. The brunette beauty went on to gain worldwide exposure playing the double of Natalie Portman’s Senator Pa [...]